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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-18
Gas Notes.

The Gosport people have organized a natural
gas stock company. with S., 900 capital, and will
begin to drill as soon as arrangements can be
perfected.
The agents for the Standard Oil Company are
leasing large tracts of land in the out townships
of Howard county, but as yet they have no foot
hold in and about kokomo.
The village of Greentown, ten miles east Of
Kokomo, has organized company to drill for
natural gas, with capital stock of $4,000 DR..
T. j. Scott is president of the company.
Major Wildmau, Of the NIuncie Times was in
the city yesterday evening attending the session
of the Grand Lodge of Odd-fellows. He is the
representative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge,
which meets in Denver next September, but
Just now is more enthusiastic about Muncie and
natural gas than fraternal matters. When it
was suggested that there should be no jealousy,
between the natural-gas towns. he remarked
that Muncie was jealous of one Some
towns have gas and nothing else; others have
no gas and little else. while Muncie has gas and
everyt thing else that goes to make beautiful,
prosperous city; consequently we are not troub-
ling ourselves about what place has the strong
est gas well the weakest. We are conscious
of the fact that have gas enough from our
seven wells to supply city of so 600 inhabit
ants, and utilizing our find, reaping
practical benefits by reason of it, we are happy,
and have time for jealousy"
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Expressions of the Public.
HOW TO GET GAS


10 the Editor OF the indianapolis journal:
Sometimes newspapers are right and some
times they are wrong just like other people.
Our papers Of this city either right or wrong.
They are both right and wrong on the gas ques
ton, because they cover all sides and phases Of
Mat question. Anyone in sympathy with the
people will be in sympathy with any movement
which will insure cheap gas for the people. and
Ill who are loyal TO our city and who are anxious
TO see period OF prosperity inaugurated, will be
ANXIOUS 10 see natural gas brought here as
cheaply as possible. The question before Us
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Every brick and stone-mason knows that the
arch is the strongest form of building The
earth itself is built arches, arch upon
arch. The Almighty Architect knew when "a 9
laid the foundations of the world that the
arch or circle was the best way to secure DIS
colossal masonry of limestone, Trenton rock,
granite and other stones. He not only built his
arches. but he added to them their centrlpetal
attraction, that holds them together more hrmiy
than hydraulic cement does the masonry OF man.
We announced, in January last, our oeNeI
that the drilling of numerous gas wells would
operate escape pipes for the relief of the over
burdened gas regions in the Internal portions OF
the earth; hence, they would serve as satety
valves to the outer crust of the earth by drawing
off the accumu!atIons of natural gas Deio".
thereby diminishing the frequency and violence OF
earthquakes and lessening the liability OF vol
canc eruptions from the pentu up forces of nature
within We still adhere to that opinion, ana,
therefore. argue that there is no danger IN tap
ping the earth Cor gas, but that the danger con-
ssts in not tapping it; therefore, let theltapping
go on ad nfinitum. for all the oil and gas weiis
ever drilled. if all put together. would not
amount to one good 81 @
in diameter infinite sinai and shrink into IN.
significance when compared to the magnitude OF
the craters OF Mt. Vesuvius, Etna, Chin borazo
and many others that might be named.
The altitude of Lake Michigan at the surface
ia 5S5 feet above ocean-level; the average altl-
tude of the Grand PRAIRIE south of Lake Michi-
gan. in Jasper, Benton and White counties. In
DIANA is $50 feet-that is 2S5 feet higher than
Lake Michigan; so it would require a drop down
OF nearly 300 feet to enable the waters of Lake
Michigan to reach that vicinity, provided Lake
Michigan held its own and didn't drop down
likewise. But, we have shown that the rock
ribbed interior of the earth is built on arches of
limestone. slate and shale, all underlaid with
arches of Trenton rock and granite, therefore it
can't drop down; there need be no immediate nor
remote alarm about it; and that all such wild and
visionary theories and speculations promul-
gated by Professor Swing untenable, and can
not stand before the light of reason any more
than the morning mists before the heat and radl-
ance of the MONDAY sun. Professor Swing may
be good theologan, but he evidently is not a
good geologian tgeologistl. He had better stick
to his text, where he is always at home, and not
wander off into the dreamy realm of conjecture
and pessimism. WIN. r. NORRIS.
SHELBYYIIIE. Ind. MAY Is.
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Now Is the Irving Time.

This is the season, this kind of weather, in
which consumption sows it's seed. Those seeds
are coughs and colds. Their fruit, if unchecked,
is death. Remember. in this connection, that
Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar, as spe-
cifc for coughs and colds. is without rival in
the world. For the sake of health and life, for
get not this. Sold by all druggists
Pixies Toothache Drops cure in one minute
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Advioe to Mothers:

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should always
lleves the little sufferer once it produces nat
ural quiet sleep by relieving the child from
pain, and the little cherub awakes as bright as
button" 1t is very pleasant to taste. It
sooIhes the child. softens the gums, allays all
pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is
the best known remedy for diarrh1a. whether
arising from teething other causes. Twenty
FIVE cents bottle
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Mind-Haalinn.

DR.. S. j. Sawyer has returned to Indianapolis,
and is located at the Denison House. The Doctor
has on sale Science and Health" the only work
containing the complete statement of the science
of mind healing Calls are received from A. NJ
to 1 P NJ. for consultations and information
upon this system of healing.
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FRESH oysters. fruits, etc. Schaffner's.

r. r. ROUSE wants it understood that the sale
of r. r. Rouse Manufacturing Company plant
has nothing to do with his regular business, as it
is a separato concern and always was.
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Well Opened at Xenia

Special to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal
PERU, May 17.-Directly upon the heels or
the failure of gas we'll No 2. in this city, comes
the assurance from Xenia, sixteen miles south
east, that strong flow found this morning,
at depth of 500 feet only four feet of Trenton
rock being penetrated thus far The flow is a
good one and shows every indication of a strong
find. One of the contractors Mr.. Swaney, of
Kokomo, was seriously burned by the escaping
gas. This is the first find of gas in Miami
county.
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Local Weather Record.
INDIANAPOLIS, Nav II. 1887.
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DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN.
Indications.

Indications.
WASHINGTON, May 10, A. NJ.
For Indiana, Illinois and Michigan-Warmer.
fair weather. light variable winds.
For West Virginia and Ohio-Colder, threat
ening weather and local rains; variable winds,
generally northerly.
For Wisconsin and Observation-Disclosures. fair
weather; winds becoming generally southerly.
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RAILWAY TIMETABLES,


I. v. r.. R.-soUTHwEsT.
Leave for Vncennes 7:15am 4:15pn
Arrive from Vincennes l0:55am 4:50pm
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teristcs In fact. she does nothing by halves
piecemeal The craters of volcanoes constitute
natures own great gas wells from which are
elected not only natural gas. but ofttimes ashes,
scorise. lava, sulphur, mud, stones and other
things.
Nature does her work differently from man,
conversely so, for nature drills from below up
the surface, while man drills from the surface
down. Nature works with irresistible power,
of the earth itself. in order relieve herself of
the surcharged condition of her internal regions.
produced by superabundance of gas. and in
some instances steam. also generated below and
held In compression until the force of the accu-
mulated vapors becomes SO great that the rock
laden crust of the earth, thick it is, must
yield in order to permit their escape from
forced imprisonment In the subterrene below.
How does Prof Swing know that tapping the
earth by means of our little gas wells, only from
four to six inches in diameter would let all the
the great volcanoes that ever existed have been
unable to do sol Our little gas wells
are mere straws or pores compared
TO natures gas wells, the great volcanoes
How does he know that it would cause depres-
sions in the earth. and that the waters would
rush into these depressions, creating lakes and
seas. destroying valuable property and livesp
writes as though it were accepted fact
tina. the subterrene structure of the earth was
caverEous and fragilely upheld by a volume of
gas, filling these caverns, which. if it be
moved, would create vacuum, into which the
terrene shell which dwell would sink or
drop. What landdrop that would be, if the
L
ever occurred in all history would be a circum-
stance to it. Does he not know that every drill
that penetrates the earth to the gas-furnishing
regions below strikes Trenton rock and not
caverDs nor cavities-that said Trenton rock is
a species of limestone of porous seamy
nature. through which the gas seeps. it were,
seeking egress to the surface above, and ready
to come forth for the comfort and benefit of
mankind. wherever tappedl
There being no caverns in the gasproducing
regions. and the manufacture of gas continually
going on in natures vast subterranean labora-
tory. the pores. seams assures that distinguish
the Trenton rock from other stones would be
constantly kept full of gas. and no depression of
the surface, or land dropping down, would be
possible
Again. the surface of the earth is the outside
OF an immense sphere composed of concentric
layers of soil and water first. next limestone,
then shale, slate, Trenton rock, granite. meta
morpheus rocks, lava, etc, arranged in pretty
tolerably well adjusted order Now the outer
layers or strata being larger and greater in cir
cumference than the inner layers and all of
them being arched. SO to speak over each other
in pretty regular rotation, could not sink to any
alarming extent Arches do not sink drop
down unless their foundation be utterly removed
or destroyed; all architects understand this
The Grenada gazette., 1887-11-19

ana one bfeeches leg, he cast his old
snoes as ne ran like quarter horse
casts his plates on the home .stratob
ne went tearing through the wirda,-
l'ess ilhe ~fhe celebrAtod .sold rrev
hoss" md "downin Alabam.p ,rwo-
lofty Hme was nowhere, Dave got TO
Nhe"alia directly. He was scared
tiii his wool usually ofthe corl,.screw
persuation unkinlSsd itself and pop-
pea like whip crackers as the Rsr
ycnt yt.it through, Akhe atmoa1hrre. TIjs
\. plack az slSin forthe time being was ex-
'ei'sege'ffor pne .ofan ahsy hue fDa-
Vid's way Of turning pale.) His ewes
protfuded from their sockets and
stood cut in bold relief like those Of
a bull-frog. He painted and his
tongue lolled, he went into camp at
Chewalla nearly dead, run to death
IN sad plight and pitiable and was
Unable for active duty for weeb. |
aiterward. But it didn't kill him, for
he was alive and negro woman
Knocked him down with a hoe on
the IA of September last, or he would
have been at u Reunion of the l5th
Miss, at Duck Hill, on the next day.
saw his Marse Coley there, ana
bought a pocket-knife from Fox &
Cunningham and sent it to the Black
Bear, who is now seventy-five or
Eighty years old. JUDGE.
Meridian, Miss, Nov. Is, 1857.
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BONDERS WANTED.

Mrs. Mary Wood desires q limited
number Of boaders, who will be Civ
en- very reasonable rates and good
board, For further information call
on Mrs, Wood.
The Grenada gazette., 1887-11-19

There is no better or pnrer cider
manufactured than Cuffs Whitakers
Kentucky sweet apple cider 1t is
delicious and will suit your taste.
Try it. Sold in all size packages, s,and
at retail.
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Cuff& Whltakers Kentucky sweet
apple cider will please you and your
customers better than any other kind
you can buy.
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The vary latest STYLES in Millinery
ut Austiuis
= NatI5i 81 'l"ul 1M t''il oe ii"o ''' l'''i
" Marcy 'o' >" "'
-, fcsne't "iiu ehtaPrs, @foe'''eS Y
0'iei'''''" ~ D. / '''.''
uAxn, rr,,f,rr wang grDEp
TOO" at Mrs. LOeWansteiu'a,
| New H'"FP. ne" (,"21u9 40" HFlce5
Cotton seed bulls for sale al the
oil mill, at 20 cts per- huShel.
T,aiae dnntt fail Ia .aa those Head-
ed Panels Az G j. Austin & co.'s,
.-----.-.
u --'---i =
at Mrs. LoeW2hstein :. Hooray
-. -, ;.
a splendid chewing tobacco
-
Five hundred dozen Boucio Back
& Co's,
''r A''"''
fora office. Apply 10 Is, Il. Goieoh.
a ear load 0, DaSgihS ahu ,ieS,
DOueht before tne EIse, dt pGli @
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]. Il. Moss will give you more
groceries for less money thah any
one else, try himl
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=
Now that the holiday season is APP
preaching, and there will be numer-
Gus persons who will want u hand
some present to give or send TO a rel
atlve OF friend, Or y sweetheart, it
may be well that we tell the people
where such things can be found and
purchased at astonishingiy low rfi
ces. Messrs. Branum & Goodwin
have a large stock of these goods, of
the latest style and loyeliost finish,
consisting of dressing cases, toilet
sets, poems, illustrated Bibles, SCRAP
and autograph albums, and standard
books of all kinds; besides various
other articles too numerous to men
tion. They make a specially of fine
holiday goods, on which they give
prices that cannot be beaten. So,
when you wantanything in this line
be sure to call at Branum d Good
wins,
The Grenada gazette., 1887-11-19

Still in the ring with later stocb
Of groceries, cheaper than ever
NEIGLE INGRAM.
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Bread, Cakes, Pies, etc., SERVED
fresh every day at Greenewald q
Kaufman's new bakery
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The Presidents vito a,0ol ON tHa dock
What was 10 itIlt |h w1rc2
A., IGer-D0Wn 5cIsH a,,hti.
From G. 3. Ar>t,p's store.
The Grenada gazette., 1887-11-19

Five hundred dozen B0ucio Back
and Beaded Jerseys, at G. j, Austin
d Co.'s.
The Grenada gazette., 1887-11-19

The NJ. q T. Ice-car arrives at Gre
NADIA at noon on Wednesday and
Saturday Of each week.
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|
An Honest Physicians Candid Aclnowl.
| edgement.
Occasionally there are candid and
fearless men in the medical profess
sion who, though strict adhevents and
eXponents of a professional "ethlcsn
are yet too noble-minded to be ham
pered by prejudiees and superstition
about "ethics" when suffering hui
manity Is concerned, men who will
speak the truth as they know it in
behalf of anything, and to whom
proprietary medicine is not q scare
crow or bugaboo, simply because it
goes by that name, but who investi-
gates its merits by experiments, and
when it proves to be what it claims
to be, at once step to the front and
acknowledge its merits and commend
it to suffering humanity everywhere.
Such man is Dr. j. n. Cheney. an
eminent and we'll known physician,
living at Ellaville, SclIey county, |
Georgia, who, in letter to the Swift |
Specific Com pany, dated March 2lst,
1887, says in reference to their famous
"Your s. s. s. medicine has rev.
the old school practice of
OF which | an bold to say
| am a faithful dicip!e. The danger
lf mercurial treatment for blood po!s-
IN is known to all. The profession
las for centuries sought u harmless
,ure, but id fvain, and it had become
, settled belief that it could only he
,ured by mineral and dangerous
reatment. But in your medicine %
afe and harmless cure for the worst
orms of blood poison ha@ been found
Your S. S. >. is a boom to humanity.
have never failed to make Il safe,
,erfect and permanet cure where the
PATIENTS have followed your direct
ons faithfully"
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseas-
s mailed free. The SWIFT SPECIFIC
'o., Drawer 8, Atlanta, Ga. {
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Dealers should use CNHSWhitakers
Kentucky sweet apple cider it eN-
GELS all other brands.
The Grenada gazette., 1887-11-19

Ladies, don't fill to see those Bead-
ed Panels, al c. i. Austin & Co.'S.
The Grenada gazette., 1887-11-19

Try nLaveI Best" at lnman's, it is
splendid chewing tobacco.
The Grenada gazette., 1887-11-19

rnr sale.
A SECOND hand, large size beating
stove. In good order, and VIII be sold
cheap. b. Is. H08noN,
The Grenada gazette., 1887-11-19

Cotton seed bulls for sale al the
oil mill at 20 cts per. bu@hel.
The Grenada gazette., 1887-11-19

--0-Y-s-'r-F F-R-s'--
at Mrs. LoeWenstein's. lfooray.
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If1&tpT lin z

Between Memphis, Tom. and New 0aleaus,
Luui~i'.'t@.
..f "a 50 Z
sa7 nss.h all. .,}Ht's Central r, B.,
The Grenada gazette., 1887-11-19

A ear load Of bagging and ties,
boueht before the rise, ut Bell d
Hardy's.
The Grenada gazette., 1887-11-19

Cuff & Whitakers Kentucky sweet
apple cider, in all size packages and
at lowest plIGes.
The Grenada gazette., 1887-11-19

The very latest styles in Millinery
at Austin's.
The Grenada gazette., 1887-11-19

"ANp i LT1TLE MORE CIDER,
TOO at Mrs LUe Wauetciu'a,
The Grenada gazette., 1887-11-19

Mr.. J. f, Moss has bought tie took
Of groceries recently opened by Mr.
Neiple INGRAM, on D67of street, ana
will fill the house with full stock
of fresh Groceries
The Grenada gazette., 1887-11-19

For all good cotton seed the Gren-
ada OH Mill viii pay the highest
cash prices.
The Grenada gazette., 1887-11-19

A barrel Of -four can be had at Bel
Il Hardy's fur SO 50.
The Grenada gazette., 1887-11-19

Come and So me in my new quw-
tiers, corner building .tof W r..
Pass. NFraLH iGEksr.
The Grenada gazette., 1887-11-19

The celebrated 'Carnation' Fiour
is now handled exclusively by Bell
&NHardy,
The Grenada gazette., 1887-11-19

4 practical baker supeHintcnds the
new bakery Of Greenew&'d & Kauf
man. Phey use none Uut the best Of
material.
The Grenada gazette., 1887-11-19

The Grenada Oh ana Compres>
Co. will exchange one ton of cotton
seed meal fot two tons Of cotton seed,
and two tons Of halls for one tor Of
seed.
The Grenada gazette., 1887-11-19

THE Grenada 0i, Min will pay yoa
ihy higheat cash prices tOrajl good,
sound cotton seed deIiTered al their
mill
The Grenada gazette., 1887-11-19

IF you want the highest cash prices
for your cotton seed call at the Gre
NADIA Oil NiIl.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1887-10-15
Break. bone Fever at Tampa.

WARRINGTON, October 1.-THE Ma
rine Hospital Bureau is in receipt
of telegram from Deputy Collector
Spencer at Tampa, Fla, stating that
one death and eight new cases of fever
have occurred at that place since
last advices, and that funds and
nurses are urgently needed, the town
treasury being empty, and the peo-
pie being demoralized Acting Sur
geon General Stoner has telegraph
ed TO the president Of the Tampa
Board of Health, asking if the disease
existing there is yellow fever, and, if
so, what steps are being taken for its
suppression. A telegram has been
received from the postmaster at
Tampa, denying that yellow fever ex-
lists there, but stating that dengue
fever is prevalent.
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GORMdNISM.

There seems to be a singular at
tribute attending the democratic
party in Maryland. The hewers of
wood and drawers of water, the rank
and file thereof, find in every move
ment stepping stone, a swaying
scepter, kingly command, and my
will, not thine be done, and all enc
mating from Mr.. German. The one
man power is evident; 1t binds
thought and action. 1t letters the
the public voice and by the might Of
conspiracy, holds even the law in
obeyance. No wonder then that
there are political Luther's in Mary
land. No wonder that such an ex-
confederate and so eminent law
yer as Col. Charles Marshall and 30
prominent lawyers as John X. Cow
en- and S. Teackle Wallis and such
citizens as VIM. Keyser, and hun
dreds of other leading democratic
citizens, should for the good of the
people, society and the state, assert
their manhood, demand absolute
manumission from abject servi-
tude to German and appeal to the
people to rise beyond submission to
the one man power No man should
be so feared, as to use the whip with
out danger of receiving the whip
in return. German has used it so
freely that the subjects are in revolt
for settlement.
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swssted INTO a CONCESSION.

It was ascertained in st. Louis, No.,
October 18th, at very late hour last
night that John B. Owens, the man
mentioned in a despatch from Little
Rock as probably being concerned in
recent robbery OF the Pacific express
on the Iron Mountain Railway, be
tween Little Rock and Texarcana, has
been arrested and is now in the Pink
erton "sweat-box" in Chicago, and
that he has confessed to having taken
the money, but that he dods not know
what has become Of it, and that he
was drunk or crazy when the act was
committed. The story as related in
st. Louis, is identical with that re-
ceived from Little Rock, with the ad
dition that he left the city week ago
last Monday with some $4,000 in
his safe. The money is said to have
been in three or four packages, con-
signed from st Louis to persons re-
siding in Texas, but the names of the
consingees are not obtainable. Owens
was captured in Illinois, and taken
to Chicago.
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President 1arreIt Fnau.
HE COULD HAVE GOT $4,000 900 FOR
THE TELEGRAPH SYSTEM.

BALTIMORE, Oct. 11-There was a
meeting to-day of the finance COM
mittee Of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad, when the subject Of a divi-
dend for the past six months was
discussed. 1t WAS stated that the
earnings of the main stem for Sep
tsmber exceeded the August earn
ings by 100000. There was a de-
cided increase in earnings east ofthe
Ohio river, while there was a falling
off west Of the Ohio. 1t was deter
mined to declare dividend for the
past six months, but it was not def
nitely settled whether it will be 8 or
four per cent.
Mr.. Garrst was not present at the
meeting, and it is stated that he was
not pleased with the sale of the tele-
graph system, because he believes he
could have obtained 81 900, 900 more
for it, but the matter had gone to
far now tooppose it. 1t is thought
now among the directors the Pull
man car system Of the road will not
be sold, at least for some time, as
the road is in good condition. A
director stated that Mr.. Garrett
controls sufficient of the stock Of the
road to re-elect himself president,
but thought he would not do so.
In regard to the visit of DR.. Met
calf, a close friend of Mr.. Garrett
stated to-day that the visit of that
gentleman WAS to look at the En-
glish pheasants, Of which Mr.. Gar
rett has q number at bis country
place, and the doctor takes an inter
est in them, and comes to see them
several times a year.
NEw YORK, Oct. 1.-The West
ern Union board Of directors to-day
unanimously ratified the purchase of
the Baltimore and Ohio lines. The
annual meeting will be held to-mor-
row, and while no changes will be
made in the directory, some breeze
may be stirred up on the proposition
to increase the capital stock $4,000
900 to pay for the purchase.